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  • Genes from the Wild

    Using Wild Genetic Resources for Food and Raw Materials

    by Robert Prescott-Allen, Christine Prescott-Allen ...
    Series series Natural Resource Management Set
    Tomatoes could not be grown commercially without the help of their wild relatives. A single wild species of rice has helped double rice production in Asia. Wild silk-worms are enabling India to expand its silk industry. A wild carp with resistance to cold has been used to extend Soviet carp production further into the north.Wild genetic resources - the heritable characteristics of wild plants and ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Strategies for National Sustainable Development

    A handbook for their planning and implementation

    by Jeremy Carew-Reid, Robert Prescott-Allen, Stephen Bass, Barry Dalal-Clayton ...
    Series series Sustainable Development Set
    The IUCN Strategies for Sustainable Development Handbook SeriesThis handbook is one in a series being produced by IUCN and its partners to assist countries and communities implement Agenda 21, the action programme of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. The series will include handbooks on national strategies for sustainable development, local strategies, assessing ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Distant Strangers

    Ethics, Psychology, and Global Poverty

    by Judith Lichtenberg ...
    What must affluent people do to alleviate global poverty? This question has occupied moral and political philosophers for forty years. But the controversy has reached an impasse: approaches like utilitarianism and libertarianism either demand too much of ordinary mortals or else let them off the hook. In Distant Strangers, Judith Lichtenberg shows how a preoccupation with standard moral theories ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • International Energy Governance

    Selected Legal Issues

    by Leal-Arcas, R., Filis, A., Abu Gosh, E.S. ...
    In a world that is hungry for energy security, the legal components at the junction of interstate energy cooperation have become increasingly important. International law as it stands today is not equipped to handle international energy governance issues fully, negatively affecting our aim to meet energy security.Selected legal deficiencies relating to international energy governance are ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Infrastructure

    The Social Value of Shared Resources

    by Brett M. Frischmann ...
    Infrastructure resources are the subject of many contentious public policy debates, including what to do about crumbling roads and bridges, whether and how to protect our natural environment, energy policy, even patent law reform, universal health care, network neutrality regulation and the future of the Internet. Each of these involves a battle to control infrastructure resources, to establish ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Thinking about Development

    by Bjorn Hettne ...
    Series series Development Matters
    This book is a concise and accessible introduction to development thinking, contemporary development theory and practice and - a critical analysis of the values that lie behind them. Hettne argues that schools of development thinking should be historically contextualized, not presented as evolving towards a universal theory. The book will present development as an 'essentially contested concept', ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Innovation and Disruption at the Grid's Edge

    How Distributed Energy Resources are Disrupting the Utility Business Model

    Edited by Fereidoon Sioshansi ...
    Innovation and Disruption at the Grid's Edge examines the viable developments in peer-to-peer transactions enabled by open platforms on the grid's edge. With consumers and prosumers using more electronic platforms to trade surplus electricity from rooftop solar panels, share a storage battery, or use smart gadgets that manage load and self-generation, the grid's edge is becoming crowded. The book ... Read more

    $110.39 CAD

  • Remaking the Nation

    Identity and Politics in Latin America

    by Sarah Radcliffe, Dr Sallie Westwood, Sallie Westwood ...
    Remaking the Nation presents new ways of thinking about the nation, nationalism and national identities.Drawing links between popular culture and indigenous movements, issues of 'race' and gender, and ideologies of national identity, the authors draw on their work in Latin America to illustrate their retheorisation of the politics of nationalism.This engaging exploration of contemporary politics ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Economics and Contemporary Land Use Policy

    Development and Conservation at the Rural-Urban Fringe

    Edited by Robert J. Johnston, Stephen K. Swallow ...
    As external forces increase the demand for land conversion, communities are increasingly open to policies that encourage conservation of farm and forest lands. This interest in conservation notwithstanding, the consequences of land-use policy and the drivers of land conversions are often unclear. One of the first books to deal exclusively with the economics of rural-urban sprawl, Economics and ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century

    The Literary Agenda

    by Maryanne Wolf ...
    Series series The Literary Agenda
    The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly it is dismissed or is unrecognised as a way of thinking or an arena for thought. It is ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Privatisation of Biodiversity?

    New Approaches to Conservation Law

    by Colin T. Reid, Walters Nsoh ...
    Series series New Horizons in Environmental and Energy Law series
    In the face of the failure of the traditional 'command and control' model of environmental regulation to curb the devastating losses of biodiversity around the world, policymakers are increasingly seeking new approaches to deal with this complex interdisciplinary issue. The Privatisation of Biodiversity? provides a timely contribution to this debate by exploring the legal aspects and the scope to ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Invisible Houses

    Rethinking and designing low-cost housing in developing countries

    by Gonzalo Lizarralde ...
    Winner of the ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award!There is an increased interest among architects, urban specialists and design professionals to contribute to solve "the housing problem" in developing countries. The Invisible Houses takes us on a journey through the slums and informal settlements of South Africa, India, Colombia, Honduras, El Salvador, Cuba, Haiti and many other countries of ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD